看到孔子的英文名是：Confucius圣贸，延展開(kāi)來(lái)學(xué)習(xí)一下：
- 孔子（Confucius，confuci是孔夫子的音譯的拉丁語(yǔ)寫(xiě)法，-us詞根是“先生”）
- 孟子（Mencius穗泵，menci是孟子的音譯的拉丁語(yǔ)寫(xiě)法，-us詞根是“先生”）
- 老子（Lao-tzu）
- 孫子（Sun-tzu）
只有這兩位是有獨(dú)立名字的踱蠢，其他的包括“老子”都是用的 -tzu 這個(gè)音譯火欧，-us 實(shí)際上是一個(gè)比較“有地位”的詞根，看下面二位：
- Jesus（耶穌）
- Zeus（宙斯）
-us 是拉丁語(yǔ)表“陽(yáng)性茎截、單數(shù)”后綴苇侵，另外 -a 表“陰性、單數(shù)”后綴企锌，-um表“中性”榆浓。
遇到好幾個(gè)“委員會(huì)”這個(gè)意思的單詞，所以學(xué)習(xí)區(qū)分一下：
- Council（委員會(huì)撕攒，最高機(jī)構(gòu)陡鹃，具有決策能力的地方議會(huì)或者機(jī)構(gòu)理事會(huì)）
- Committee（委員會(huì)烘浦，隸屬于某個(gè)上級(jí)機(jī)構(gòu)，具有常設(shè)機(jī)構(gòu)性質(zhì)）
- Commission（委員會(huì)萍鲸，隸屬于某個(gè)上級(jí)機(jī)構(gòu)闷叉，重在完成某個(gè)特定的任務(wù)，弱化機(jī)構(gòu)性）
Council can be defined as a group of individuals who come together in order to make decisions, consult or to deliberate on a common objective. At a city, town or county level, a council may function as a legislature representing the government although, on a national level, most legislative bodies are not considered as councils. In a town, certain schools and universities are run by two councils, which is considered as their local government. A member of a council is referred to as a councillor, councilman or a councilwoman. A board of directors may also be considered as a council.
Committee represents a parent body. It is formed either by election, nomination or agreed rules and performs functions which help in such activities of the parent body which either make sense as long as the parent body exists (e.g., advisory committee of a business organization) or are expected to be completed within the expected time of existence of the parent body (e.g., a judicial committee appointed by government to recommend legislative changes in a particular area). The functions of a committee make sense in the context of a parent body and may not necessarily be recognized after the parent body ceases to exist.
Commission is also formed by a parent body but it performs function which may help in the activities of the parent body but also are relevant to a larger context than the context of existence of the parent body and hence arrangements are made such that the commission would be recognized even when the parent body ceases to exist. A commission continues to function even when the parent body ceases to exist (e.g., Election Commission of India, National Commission for Women).
前段時(shí)間系統(tǒng)的學(xué)習(xí)過(guò)奧斯卡脊阴、諾貝爾和米其林握侧，今天看到 Guinness World Records，也就順便簡(jiǎn)單了解了一下嘿期，關(guān)鍵還是痛點(diǎn)抓的好：
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1998 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous U.S. editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records and national records, both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. The book itself holds a world record, as the best-selling copyrighted book of all time. As of the 2016 edition, it is now in its 62nd year of publication. The international franchise has extended beyond print to include television series and museums. The popularity of the franchise has resulted in Guinness World Records becoming the primary international authority on the cataloguing and verification of a huge number of world records; the organization employs official record adjudicators authorised to verify the authenticity of the setting and breaking of records.
On an unknown date in November 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver (1890-1967) was out shooting on Slob Hill, by the river Slaney in County Wexford in the south-east of Ireland. Some golden plovers were missed by the party. That evening at Castleford House it was realized that it was not possible to confirm in reference books whether or not the golden plover was Europe's fastest game bird. It occurred to Sir Hugh, managing director of the Guinness Breweries, that there must be numerous other questions debated nightly in the 81,400 pubs in Britain and in Ireland, but there was no book with which to settle arguments about records.[^history]
[^history]: http://guinness.book-of-records.info/history.html
Guinness World Records 的 founder 有三位：
被刺殺的原因是：
Ross McWhirter had offered a ￡50,000 reward to anyone willing to inform the security forces of IRA activity
